Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 24 03 Sep 2026, 03:18

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 22:32.483 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.812
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:27.717
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.250
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.190
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.472
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.156
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.397
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.557
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.217
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.800
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.758
And the system is very low on memory 4.697
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.200
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.288
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.136
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.397
And I free up some memory 0.412
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.856
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.929
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
And all tps features are active 7.601
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.442
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.969
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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13.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.785
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.381
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.510
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.719
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.750
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.709
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.780
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.787
When I write some files expected to persist 0.912
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.345
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.620
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.420
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.282
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.292
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 12.272
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.088
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37.551
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.249
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.200
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.287
When I enable persistence 20.772
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.952
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.130
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.170
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.006
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
When I cold reboot the computer 5.768
And the computer reboots Tails 32.881
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.287
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 12.045
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.282
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.160
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:1.229
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.875
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 26.590
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.173
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.968
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.287
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.172
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.628
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.849
And all notifications have disappeared 8.739
When I delete the persistent partition 2.613
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.757
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.613
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.091
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.062
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.552
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.504
And all notifications have disappeared 8.419
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.212
And all tps features are enabled 6.989
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:58.458
And I enable persistence 24.998
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.412
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And persistence is enabled 7.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.551
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.199
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.196
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.950
When I enable persistence 12.592
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.861
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.785
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.608
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.123
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.851
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.936
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.116
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 7.322
And all notifications have disappeared 7.148
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.065
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.033
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.601
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.796
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.695
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.231
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.539
When I log in to a new session 7.555
And all notifications have disappeared 6.380
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.127
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000